Woman says Delta served chicken curry on a packed international flight. Then the bathroom lines never stopped: ‘Kept getting crop dusted’ She wants the dish pulled from the menu We Got This Covered · Sep 14
Heavy rain subsides as Charli XCX takes to stage at Reading Festival Charli delivered the first full UK set of her Music, Fashion, Film era. Evening Standard · Aug 28
Session guitar great Chris Spedding diagnosed with lymphoma A GoFundMe has been set up for Spedding, who has played with Paul McCartney, Brian Eno, the Pretenders, John Cale, and Jack Bruce, among countless others Guitar World · Aug 21
Summer soundtrack: Charli XCX and the return of The Strokes On today's Arts24 music show, Jennifer Ben Brahim brings us a roundup of upcoming album releases to add to your summer playlists. From the return of indie sleaze icons The Strokes, who are set to release their first album in six years, "Reality Awaits", to a British pop star hoping… France 24 · Jul 13
"He wrote stories so painfully real that rock’n’roll still bears their scars." From Velvet Underground to his often divisive solo work, here's why Lou Reed is rock’s greatest storyteller "With 1989’s New York album, Reed sealed his position as NYC’s poet laureate with a concept work of rare lyrical brilliance." Louder · Jun 27
“I know that there’s been a lot of conversation around me making a rock album, which is something that I never said”: Charli XCX reflects on the reaction to her 'dancefloor is dead' lyric, and says she's not about to release a rock record “I don’t even know what the genre is. It’s just me and A G Cook and Finn Keane, doing our thing" MusicRadar · Jun 22
‘Spirit would never’: Frontier flight from Puerto Rico to Chicago takes off. Then a passenger tries to jump out the emergency exit mid-flight Most in-flight emergencies have to do with weather, mechanical issues, or maybe someone with a dire medical need. However, this one involved something you might not even believe, and it’s damn near a scene out of a movie. What these women experienced on a flight back from a bachelorette might… The Mary Sue · Jun 12
Charli XCX announces new album featuring John Cale, Marc Jacobs and Martin Scorsese on the cover A new Charli XCX album, ‘Music, Fashion, Film’, is coming next month, and in keeping with the album title, the cover features three heavyweights from the world of music, fashion and film... Euronews · Jun 2
Charli xcx Announces New Album Music, Fashion, Film Feat. Three Icons On The Cover Here's everything we know about pop superstar Charli xcx's much-anticipated eighth studio album, Music, Fashion, Film. Pedestrian.tv · Jun 2
Charli XCX announces new album and collaboration with unexpected trio Charli XCX has announced her seventh studio album, titled Music, Fashion, Film , is scheduled for release on 24 July. The upcoming record will feature 11 songs, with a total runtime of 30 minutes and 5 seconds, and is now available for pre-order. The album's cover art, shared by the… The Independent UK · Jun 1
Charli XCX announces seventh studio album Music, Fashion, Film The chart topper said the upcoming 11-track record will be released on July 24. Evening Standard · Jun 1
Arizona woman’s date starts off great—and ends up with her date in handcuffs and her Googling how to reverse a G-Wagon: ‘Why would you bail him out?’ An Arizona woman thought she was in for a night of being wined and dined. Instead, her seemingly perfect date ended at a police station, where she found herself trying to bail him out. The Mary Sue · May 4
Bride does her nails at 2:30pm on her wedding day. Now ‘Type B’ brides are speaking out: ‘I doordashed my veil from Spirit Halloween an hour before’ There are two kinds of brides: the ones with a color-coded, minute-by-minute timeline… and the ones casually applying press-on nails mid-afternoon on their actual wedding day. The Mary Sue · Apr 21
“Paul McCartney likes to control things under the guise of saying, ‘Play as free as you like.’ Then he’ll start to pick it all apart”: Chris Spedding’s favorite sessions From handling Jack Bruce’s temper, to Brian Eno’s budget studio and Macca’s post-Beatles era, the UK session veteran picks his most treasured moments Guitar World · Apr 17
The Mary Sue · Mar 20 Boston woman looks up man online after kissing him at the bar the night before. Then she finds his wedding website: ‘You have to tell her’ A Boston woman meets a guy on a night out and they share a kiss. When she Googles him the next morning, she sees a link to his wedding website. Viewers debate whether she should tell his fiancée.
MusicRadar · Mar 12 “The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band”: Why this cult classic was hailed as one of the most influential albums of all time “A savage series of atonal thrusts and electronic feedback”
The Mary Sue · Feb 13 HVAC tech addresses her pregnancy. Then she discovers her fiancé’s clever ploy: ‘I’ve been sitting here smoking…the entire time’ A couple calls an HVAC technician fix their heater before a winter storm. The man creates a clever fib to get it fixed faster but doesn’t tell his fiancée, creating an awkward situation when the worker asks her if she’s having a “boy or a girl.”
The Independent UK · Feb 13 Music Review: A post-'Brat' Charli xcx broods on the 'Wuthering Heights' soundtrack Charli xcx's first release post-"Brat” summer is a brooding soundtrack for Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of “Wuthering Heights,” and it aims to stand on its own
The Guardian - UK · Feb 13 Charli xcx: Wuthering Heights review – atonal, amorous anthems that more than stand apart from the film Casting off her Bratty cigarettes and sunglasses, the pop visionary channels the torments of Heathcliff and Cathy and the tumult of the Velvet Underground on her latest captivating pivot
The Independent UK · Feb 13 Charli xcx review, Wuthering Heights – A spectacular, phantasmagorical fever dream 5/5 On her wild, gothic soundtrack album, the pop star proves herself much more in tune with the terrible complexity of Emily Brontë’s original vision than film director Emerald Fennell
The Independent UK · Feb 9 What to Stream: Charli xcx, Chalamet in 'Marty Supreme,' Ethan Hawke, 'Cross' and Mario Tennis Fever Timothée Chalamet starring as a table tennis wizard in “Marty Supreme” and Charli xcx’s soundtrack to Emily Brontë’s “Wuthering Heights” are some of the new television, films, music and video games headed to a device near you
Louder · Feb 4 “The email said, ‘John Cale is looking for you.’ It absolutely terrified me. I thought I was in trouble!” How the Velvet Underground icon voiced a powerful song on Cate Le Bon’s new album Michelangelo Dying, which she says is more of an exorcism than an album, was nearly released without Cale performing on the track Ride, because she was too afraid to ask him
We Got This Covered · Jan 30 Woman gets carsick in Uber ride, but her real nightmare begins when her driver starts to ‘freshen’ the air That's low-key biological warfare.
Louder · Jan 21 "They took a record that I'd made and erased all my songs, all my vocals. I thought, 'I won’t let you get away with this'": From goth glory to bad blood - the Gene Loves Jezebel story Reflecting on both success and rancour, identical twins Michael and Jay Aston look back on their time in the band – and at each other’s throats
We Got This Covered · Jan 20 ‘This is not real’: Passenger films what older woman does to her during Emirates flight and viewers are baffled Being nice cost her the entire flight.